Senior Back-End Developer (Laravel) - Maintenance

Senior Backend Developer (Maintenance)

• Zid Platform is a backend system that was written in Laravel, it provides an API to all Zid frontend systems and we aim to open it to external developers.
• Maintenance is a temporary team that’s responsible for reducing the number of bugs in Zid Platform since our growth made the maintenance progress slower lately.
• Once we reach a point where bugs number is reasonable and not a barrier, the team will get merged to the development team which is responsible for implementing and improving Zid features from Backend side like: checkout, product management, customer management .. etc.

Duties

• Communicate with QA engineer or the customer service to define the bugs and to ask the proper questions.
• Contribute with the product team to prioritize the bugs.
• Contribute with the refactoring team to find the non-maintainable components and to re-design them.
• Troubleshoot and debug the problematic code blocks.
• Deliver bug fixes.

Hiring Timeline

• After scanning resumes, the recruiting team will identify the most qualified candidates for job to follow up with, and will send a note of the rejection to the disqualified ones.
• Pre-screening questionnaire: candidates will receive a couple of theoretical questions related to the position, and they will be given a week to answer these questions, the validity and quality of their answers will determine if they will move on to the next step.
• Technical interview (pair-programming session): the candidates will get access to a real-world project repository with a couple of issues and requirements to solve, they will be given a week to commit their solutions and to write their notes. Then they will have a pair-programming session with one of Zid developers to discuss the suggested solutions.

The final hiring decision will be taken based on these criteria:

• Technical communication.
• Soft skills, e.g: writing, non-technical communication, information delivery.
• Problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Code quality.